The one thing MS is good for is to force me to find replacements for their lousy, bloated, slow products.
If I hadn't gotten sick to death of using Word, I'd never have found LaTeX. Now, as the world's biggest fan of LaTeX, I have taken an oath never to create another Word document as long as I live!
And, of course, I never, ever do anything serious on Windows. It's Unix or Linux for me.
I've been thinking for a long that if I won an absurd amount of lottery money, I'd use some of it to retrieve the "stage zero" engines from an Atlas launch and put'em in my den. My own space-age artifact! Of course, the wife would say, You're going to put what in here???"
By the time today's grammar school kids are ready to go into the workforce, there won't be any STEM jobs. Why train for a position for which there will be no jobs?
I bought a 1979 Datsun 210 new, kept it for nearly 15 years. It never stranded me, not once. Had to replace the A/C compressor, otherwise very little went wrong. At the 100,000 mile mark, I asked my mechanic how long he thought the engine would last. His reply: "Only 100,000 miles? It ain't even broke in good yet!"
A year or two later, in a silly fit of patriotism, I swapped the 210 for a new 1994 Ford Taurus. In the next ten years, I stupidly probably paid as much in maintenance as I did to buy the car. (Ok, this is likely a bit overstated, but you get the picture. I won't bore you with horror stories of replacing parts weeks after the warranty period for the new parts ended.)
Who can guess whether I bought Japanese or American in 2004? Extra points if you can guess whether I would ever buy (or even be given) another Ford.
Robert L. Park, PhD. was for many years the head of the American Physical Society. Park made an interesting claim in one of his weekly emails in 2011:
"It was Einstein who pointed out in 1905 that microwave radiation is not ionizing, for which he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. I pointed this out 10 years ago in an editorial I wrote at the request of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "Cellular Telephones and Cancer: How Should Science Respond?""
How do you know what law enforcement will do? Are you psychic?
You don't have to be psychic to have a clue about the future actions of governments. All you have to do is to look at the news. Are you completely unaware how police are becoming militarized? I find this trend very, very disturbing. Go look up the images of cops recently pepper spraying peaceful protesters at a university in California.
How about if they do arm drones then we protest. Like all slippery slope arguments this one stops a good thing because a bad decision may be made later. By this logic we should not arm police because they might shoot an innocent person. Slipper slope arguments are logically false.
How about we outlaw drone flights over the U.S. to prevent unwarranted government intrusion. If you think protesting will change anything once the drones become armed, you are just simply out of touch with reality.
You missed the point completely. The GF was stating that a manned aircraft was better because a pilot could refuse an order. I was just pointing out that a UAV also has a pilot who could refuse the order.
No, you missed the point. Any pilot, manned or uav, could choose, as well, to follow an order.
you do not seem to have an issue with manned overflights. What is the difference if the aircraft is unmanned with the pilot on the ground?
Your assertion regarding my thoughts on overflights is unwarranted by any evidence presented on/.
I call'em "Worst Buy" in part because they lied to me about a rebate on a washer and dryer I purchased from them. If memory serves, they got in trouble with the FTC over this practice.
I will never set foot in one of their stores, much less buy anything from them.
I didn't see anywhere in the article about allowing armed attack drones in US airspace. It is about surveillance drones. I doubt very much that it is legal for an armed aircraft to shoot at a civilian in the US. The same laws would go for drones.
It's only a matter of time between the introduction of drones and when someone (actual criminals or just ya-hoos) starts shooting at them. When that happens, law enforcement will up the ante by arming the drones.
Secondly there is still a pilot that just happens not to be in the aircraft. That pilot can refuse the order just the same as if he was in the cockpit.
The pilot may refuse the order, then again, he may not. Want to bet your life on which he chooses? WWII (and likely all wars) provided many stories about those who were just following orders.
How about you object to what is actually being proposed rather than a scenario that is illegal under many other laws.
How about we don't allow drone overflights so this can't escalate into more loss of our rights and other tragedies?
[Air Traffic Controllers] don't see anything but a computer generated screen populated with traffic based on IFF transponder returns...
Back when I was flying (as PIC), ATC had the option of switching to what they called "broadband" (i.e., raw radar returns). Can someone who is a current PIC verify this is still the case?
Having ONE drone capable of flying at 30,000 feet with an amazing telescope just might not be as useful as a few dozen little rotor bugs that can peep into windows and send back a grainy 640x480 video that shows where the Bad Guys are lurking...
Having ONE drone capable of flying at 30,000 feet with an amazing telescope just might not be as useful as a few dozen little rotor bugs that can peep into windows and send back a grainy 640x480 video that shows where the Ordinary Citizens are lurking...
The second type of microcomputer I programmed in assembler was the 6502-based Kim-1. For eight bits, it wasn't a bad instruction set, and it made me a fan of the 6502. I bought a Rockwell AIM-65 and loved it. I even bought a bare circuit board for the Motorola 6802 from Peter Stark (anybody remember StarKits?) and modified circuit traces to make the board into a 6502 system. I was very, very proud that the modified circuit board and a monitor (e.g., EPROM-based "o.s.") of my own designed worked the first time I powered it up!
Wow, what was it like trying to stockpile all the TPB&W film you could when you found out it was going to be discontinued?
I'm guessing you've never seen prints from Tech Pan film and you're just trolling. If I had found out about the discontinuance in time, I'd have stocked up on at least a dozen rolls. AFAIK, there is no equivalent of Tech Pan anywhere on planet earth.
Anybody want to buy a bit of left-over, factory fresh (circa 2003) Technidol developer?:)
Here's something that was lost: Kodak stopped making their wonderful Tech Pan B&W film. I would still be buying this stuff and developing and printing it myself if it were available. Together with Ilford paper, Tech Pan had great tonal range and no grain.
I haven't forgiven Xerox their sin of withdrawing from the mainframe business in July, 1975. They abandoned the Sigma series of machines and some of the coolest system software that ever existed. They will always be losers.
Others have mentioned some of Richard Rhodes' work ("The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (1988 Pulitzer Prize winner) and "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb"). Both were fantastically well-researched. I can also highly recommend "Deadly Feasts."
RR has a new book, "Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World." Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil designed and patented (US patent number 2292387) what is now known as spread spectrum communications to control a torpedo. I haven't read the book yet, but it's on my list. Can anyone comment on it?
Erm, nope. You're wrong. Nokia were easily the best of the "dumb" phones available.
I've had several hideous cell phones supplied by my former employer. Of these monstrosities, the Nokia was, by far, the worst, the stupidest, the poorest thought out cell phone I ever touched. Worse even than the windows mobile that often hung up or generated a BSOD equivalent!
If you want to continue to support Nokia, irrespective of how lousy their phones are, please go ahead, but I'll never, ever have another Nokia.
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I have no idea where the B-52 are now, Google Maps doesn't show a single one now.
Check out the BUFFs at http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.176076,-110.856085&spn=0.005709,0.008256&sll=32.165368,-110.864239&sspn=0.032296,0.066047&oq=dav&mra=mr&t=h&z=18. If you zoom out, you may find more near here.
The one thing MS is good for is to force me to find replacements for their lousy, bloated, slow products.
If I hadn't gotten sick to death of using Word, I'd never have found LaTeX. Now, as the world's biggest fan of LaTeX, I have taken an oath never to create another Word document as long as I live!
And, of course, I never, ever do anything serious on Windows. It's Unix or Linux for me.
I've been thinking for a long that if I won an absurd amount of lottery money, I'd use some of it to retrieve the "stage zero" engines from an Atlas launch and put'em in my den. My own space-age artifact! Of course, the wife would say, You're going to put what in here???"
They must be stopped, and I mean now, otherwise the world's productivity will suffer!
I can see guys getting uproariously drunk and saying, "Let's launch them suckers!" Up they go, half a million a pop, plus launch expenses.
By the time today's grammar school kids are ready to go into the workforce, there won't be any STEM jobs. Why train for a position for which there will be no jobs?
Get back to me when it works on management, irrespective of the range.
I bought a 1979 Datsun 210 new, kept it for nearly 15 years. It never stranded me, not once. Had to replace the A/C compressor, otherwise very little went wrong. At the 100,000 mile mark, I asked my mechanic how long he thought the engine would last. His reply: "Only 100,000 miles? It ain't even broke in good yet!"
A year or two later, in a silly fit of patriotism, I swapped the 210 for a new 1994 Ford Taurus. In the next ten years, I stupidly probably paid as much in maintenance as I did to buy the car. (Ok, this is likely a bit overstated, but you get the picture. I won't bore you with horror stories of replacing parts weeks after the warranty period for the new parts ended.)
Who can guess whether I bought Japanese or American in 2004? Extra points if you can guess whether I would ever buy (or even be given) another Ford.
You can read Park's editorial at http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/3/166.full.
How do you know what law enforcement will do? Are you psychic?
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You don't have to be psychic to have a clue about the future actions of governments. All you have to do is to look at the news. Are you completely unaware how police are becoming militarized? I find this trend very, very disturbing. Go look up the images of cops recently pepper spraying peaceful protesters at a university in California.
How about if they do arm drones then we protest. Like all slippery slope arguments this one stops a good thing because a bad decision may be made later. By this logic we should not arm police because they might shoot an innocent person. Slipper slope arguments are logically false.
How about we outlaw drone flights over the U.S. to prevent unwarranted government intrusion. If you think protesting will change anything once the drones become armed, you are just simply out of touch with reality.
You missed the point completely. The GF was stating that a manned aircraft was better because a pilot could refuse an order. I was just pointing out that a UAV also has a pilot who could refuse the order.
No, you missed the point. Any pilot, manned or uav, could choose, as well, to follow an order.
you do not seem to have an issue with manned overflights. What is the difference if the aircraft is unmanned with the pilot on the ground?
Your assertion regarding my thoughts on overflights is unwarranted by any evidence presented on
I call'em "Worst Buy" in part because they lied to me about a rebate on a washer and dryer I purchased from them. If memory serves, they got in trouble with the FTC over this practice.
I will never set foot in one of their stores, much less buy anything from them.
I didn't see anywhere in the article about allowing armed attack drones in US airspace. It is about surveillance drones. I doubt very much that it is legal for an armed aircraft to shoot at a civilian in the US. The same laws would go for drones.
It's only a matter of time between the introduction of drones and when someone (actual criminals or just ya-hoos) starts shooting at them. When that happens, law enforcement will up the ante by arming the drones.
Secondly there is still a pilot that just happens not to be in the aircraft. That pilot can refuse the order just the same as if he was in the cockpit.
The pilot may refuse the order, then again, he may not. Want to bet your life on which he chooses? WWII (and likely all wars) provided many stories about those who were just following orders.
How about you object to what is actually being proposed rather than a scenario that is illegal under many other laws.
How about we don't allow drone overflights so this can't escalate into more loss of our rights and other tragedies?
[Air Traffic Controllers] don't see anything but a computer generated screen populated with traffic based on IFF transponder returns...
Back when I was flying (as PIC), ATC had the option of switching to what they called "broadband" (i.e., raw radar returns). Can someone who is a current PIC verify this is still the case?
Having ONE drone capable of flying at 30,000 feet with an amazing telescope just might not be as useful as a few dozen little rotor bugs that can peep into windows and send back a grainy 640x480 video that shows where the Bad Guys are lurking...
Having ONE drone capable of flying at 30,000 feet with an amazing telescope just might not be as useful as a few dozen little rotor bugs that can peep into windows and send back a grainy 640x480 video that shows where the Ordinary Citizens are lurking...
FTFY
No weapons platform needed, ...
No weapons platform needed yet.
FTFY
Talk about ungrateful! You Limeys might be speaking German if it weren't for Alan Turing's insightful, original crypto work.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you responding to someone, or just ranting into the ether?
Dude, I got his blaster comment. Best laugh I've had all day!
The second type of microcomputer I programmed in assembler was the 6502-based Kim-1. For eight bits, it wasn't a bad instruction set, and it made me a fan of the 6502. I bought a Rockwell AIM-65 and loved it. I even bought a bare circuit board for the Motorola 6802 from Peter Stark (anybody remember StarKits?) and modified circuit traces to make the board into a 6502 system. I was very, very proud that the modified circuit board and a monitor (e.g., EPROM-based "o.s.") of my own designed worked the first time I powered it up!
So where is the 6502 museum?
Wow, what was it like trying to stockpile all the TPB&W film you could when you found out it was going to be discontinued?
:)
I'm guessing you've never seen prints from Tech Pan film and you're just trolling. If I had found out about the discontinuance in time, I'd have stocked up on at least a dozen rolls. AFAIK, there is no equivalent of Tech Pan anywhere on planet earth.
Anybody want to buy a bit of left-over, factory fresh (circa 2003) Technidol developer?
Hello, Ron A. M. Fouchier and 38 co-authors here. I want to assure everyone that our work on a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza will have no
er...
hold a moment...
we aren't feeling too well..
can someone please #$%^
NO CARRIER
and yet... John Corzine is still walking the streets.
So is Nancy Pelosi and a lot of other senators and congressmen. Does anyone think they should be immune from arrest due to insider trading?
Here's something that was lost: Kodak stopped making their wonderful Tech Pan B&W film. I would still be buying this stuff and developing and printing it myself if it were available. Together with Ilford paper, Tech Pan had great tonal range and no grain.
Adios, Kodak film products. We will miss you.
If you make it back to 0 ft/0 mph, with the exception of a couple airports, you've just landed in the ocean.
He means 0 feet AGL.
I haven't forgiven Xerox their sin of withdrawing from the mainframe business in July, 1975. They abandoned the Sigma series of machines and some of the coolest system software that ever existed. They will always be losers.
Others have mentioned some of Richard Rhodes' work ("The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (1988 Pulitzer Prize winner) and "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb"). Both were fantastically well-researched. I can also highly recommend "Deadly Feasts."
RR has a new book, "Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World." Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil designed and patented (US patent number 2292387) what is now known as spread spectrum communications to control a torpedo. I haven't read the book yet, but it's on my list. Can anyone comment on it?
Erm, nope. You're wrong. Nokia were easily the best of the "dumb" phones available.
I've had several hideous cell phones supplied by my former employer. Of these monstrosities, the Nokia was, by far, the worst, the stupidest, the poorest thought out cell phone I ever touched. Worse even than the windows mobile that often hung up or generated a BSOD equivalent!
If you want to continue to support Nokia, irrespective of how lousy their phones are, please go ahead, but I'll never, ever have another Nokia.